Fat Chicks Rule

Stupid diets

Of all the stupid diets, this one takes the cake.  It reminds me very much of Daniel Pinkwater's pizza and cupcake diet from the Afterlife Diet   Everyday you can eat all you want but only two foods.  So Monday it can be Cupcakes and pizza, Tuesday is ice cream and cookies and so on.

It's funny how someone sent me an e-mail accusing me of making money off of making people "unhealthy", but this guy's stupid diet book is selling like hotcakes. 

Book recommendation

Sorry about the Tuesday post.  Unfortunately my router died.  I'm posting from my husband's computer.

I finished a terrific book last week.  Pattie Thomas' Taking Up Space: How Eating Well and Exercising Regularly Changed My Life  It is fabulous and honest book about the myths of obesity as well as the author's personal journey to size acceptance.  There were many parts of this book that mirrored my own life.

It is well worth the $25 both to support Pattie and Pearlsong Press (a press that solely publishes size positive books.)

Fat Chicks Rule!
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Lara Frater

Uncontrollable Bowel Movements!

Stupid FDA panel recommends that Oilyshit... I mean Orlistat a fat "blocking" drug be sold OTC. 

Side effects include:

• oily, spotting BMs
• gas with discharge
• urgent need to have a BM
• oily or fatty stools
• an oily discharge
• increased number of BMs
• inability to control BMs
• orange or brown color of a BM
• stomach pain
• irregular menstrual periods

Contact the FDA
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville MD 20857-0001
1-888-INFO-FDA (1-888-463-6332)

Righty, Lefty

Karl Rove has lost a lot a weight, then gained it back.   Proving that weight cycling can effect anyone. 

I was on Right-Wing Radio last Sunday night (My political beliefs are left of center, so this was an experience):  KABC in Los Angeles with a show guest hosted by Carol Liebau.  We were talking about the article that I mentioned in last week's blog.   Carol was very nice, but her callers weren't as much.  Most of them were typical.  (i.e. I don't like fat chicks) then the calls at the end started to get silly.  One caller said we should all go back to wearing corsets.  I guess women shouldn't vote either.

My point here is the fat is political on both sides.  After the article came out, I saw it mentioned on a leftist blog and a rightist blog.  Both were extremely critical of the article and of me. 

Fat is a feminist issue because fat is used to keep women obsessed with their appearances and it is a traditionalist issue because it is anti-fertility and anti-mother hood.  Fat women come from all points on the spectrum but we all deserve to be treated fairly.   

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Fat Chicks Rule!

Easy stuff first

If you see a diet outright lying in their ads, you can make a complain with the FTC  The FTC does attempt to crack down on lying diet claims. They also have a site mimicing bogus claims.

Fan Mail

Hi all!

I was quoted in an AP article Survey: Thin's still in, but fat's where it's at, too It has given me a whole influx of fan mail. I got some very sweet and supportive ones. Of course I also got some "fun" ones. As I mention on my site I reserve the right to post e-mail.  I decided to be nice and not post their e-mails. 

"tom walsh" Wrote: “sorry....fat chicks drool, not rule. You have done great harm with your sophomric essay. Have another pie but stop writing.”

Dogs drool. I wrote a book not an essay and it’s spelled sophomoric but congratulations on using your first big word. My dessert of choice is ice cream.

"James Garrison" wrote: “Your book would never have been written if you had chosen to eat responsibly and exercised throughout your life. Yet it is brilliant how you have capitalized on your failure to be healthy by writing exactly what other overweight women want to hear. You are taking advantage of these women and I'll bet you gladly take their money to the bank.”

James is partially right that I might have never written this book if I had eaten right and exercised throughout my life. Because I went on a pathway of dieting and binging I gained 70 pounds. Had I chose not to diet I would have still been fat but I might have been thinner than I am now. But even though I still suffer the ill effects of dieting, I don’t regret my dieting years. There is nothing like experience to make things clearer.

As far as money, if I really wanted to make money I would have written a diet book. My book came out from a small press and I’ve had to pay for some of my own expenses. When I do actually see a check, a good portion of that money will be donated to NAAFA, ISAA and organizations devoted to ridding the world of anorexia and bulimia.

Last night I was on right wing radio. It was actually fun. I will post more info on this soon.

Fat Chicks Rule!!

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Lara

Worst Diets of 2005

On the Jan 17th, the Healthy Weight Network (Big proponents of Health at Every Size) will have the 17th Annual Slim Chance awards for the worst diets of 2005

Topping the list this year is someone my household refers to "Big Fat Dr. Phil." The "doctor" who regurgitates previous diets and pushes his followers to purchase needless weight loss vitamins.

Other product on the list is skinny water.  The only weight you will lose from this products will be in your wallet.

Fat = Living Longer?

New York (my home) are apparently the sixth fattest city in the US based to an unscientific study, yet  the Summary of Vital Statistics says that New Yorkers are living longer.   Overall, Americans are living longer despite this "epidemic".

Death to Dieting!

Happy New Year! Remember the golden rule: "Results not typical."

In honor of the New Year when people start diets and join gyms, I have decided to dedicate a blog purely to help bring about the end of the diet industry.  The fine folks who make money from destroying self esteem and bring about an increase in eating disorders. 

The Blog is at http://fatchicksrule.blogs.com/death_to_dieting/

The end of Dieting!

Welome to the first post of Death to Dieting! Right now I am doing this as a blog, but I am hoping to grow it to activism.   I will be posting every Monday the same time I post on the Fat Chicks Rule Blog.

Dieting destroys self-esteem, causes unhealthy weight cycling, and leads to eating disorders.  I spent 17 years dieting and gained 70 lbs, suffered from low self-esteem especially when I stopped losing.  Dieting damaged my immune system, stomach, caused high cholesterol and made me feel ill.  When I stopped dieting, my weight gain stopped, my well being returned to normal and I felt very good about life because I no longer judged it by the number on the scale.  I also ate better and exercised regularly.

This blog will be news, rants, and information on the dangers of dieting (including conventional dieting, surgery, pills etc) and the promotion of Health at Every Size.   

Fat Chicks (and Guys) Rule!
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